Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics vii
4. Table of Contents xxxv
5. Contributors xxxix
6. Introduction 1
7. I Word-level semantics
8. 1 The semantics of Japanese verbs 19
9. 2 The semantics of nouns 51
10. II Proposition-level semantics
11. 3 Toward an empirical foundation for argument structure in Japanese, a prodrop language 105
12. 4 Formal logical approaches to meaning in Japanese 175
13. 5 Sentence structure and quantifier scope in Japanese: A retrospective and reanalysis 267
14. III The semantics of time
15. 6 Temporal categories: Interactions among tense, aspect, and nontemporal meaning 311
16. 7 Formal treatments of tense and aspect 371
17. 8 Tense and aspect in discourse 423
18. IV The semantics of reality
19. 9 Conditionals in Japanese 451
20. 10 Negation 495
21. 11 Possibility and necessity in Japanese: Prioritizing, epistemic, and dynamic modality 537
22. V The semantics of information: Speaker-oriented modality
23. 12 Evidentials: Marking the source of information 589
24. 13 Presupposition and assertion 619
25. 14 Sentence-final particles in Japanese 655
26. VI Meaning in context: Inter-speaker modality and pragmatics
27. 15 Nominal deixis in Japanese 687
28. 16 Social deixis in Japanese 733
29. 17 Conversational implicature 773
30. 18 Japanese fillers as discourse markers: Meanings of “meaningless” elements 799
31. Subject Index 839